7.4: Safe Environments
Increase the percentage of children and youth living in a permanent, safe environment Other Information:
How We Will Accomplish Our Objective - Encourage adoptions, for example, by identifying and addressing the sources of delays
in inter-jurisdictional adoptions and holding states to standards for improving the timeliness of adoptions, particularly
for children with special needs. - Provide support for developmental and other services to help homeless and runaway youth
return home or live in secure alternative environments. - Provide support for independent living services to help foster youth
transition to independence, including support for educational vouchers to help that transition. - Improve the safety, permanency,
and well-being of children in the child welfare system by emphasizing outcomes for children in child and family services reviews
and through technical assistance to states. - Support research and demonstrations to better understand how to prevent and
treat child abuse and neglect and family violence, and provide stable family situations. - Support Protection and Advocacy
Systems programs that investigate and resolve the inappropriate and unsafe treatment of children with disabilities. - Promote
the continuity of family reunification when safe and possible.
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